Deconstruction blocks any fixed or global theory of feminism, gender, race, or class.

Evidence

I am still moved by the reversal-displacement morphology of deconstruction, crediting the asymmetry of the “interest” of the historical moment. Investigating the hidden ethico-political agenda of differentiations constitutive of knowledge and judgment interests me even more. It is also the deconstructive view that keeps me resisting an essentialist freezing of the concepts of gender, race, and class. I look rather at the repeated agenda of the situational production of those concepts and our complicity in such a production. This aspect of deconstruction will not allow the establishment of a hegemonic “global theory” of feminism. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 498

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s tracing of strategic essentialism — Spivak here affirms the deconstructive resistance to any ‘essentialist freezing’ that her own strategic essentialism concept navigates. — connects to: Marxism’s theoretical elegance required discarding race, gender, and culture.; An all-encompassing discourse-determinism erases class, gender, and all resistance. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 815
• ADDENDUM: Could strengthen an argument about how identity claims are held non-literally, complementing her qualifications about not letting the strategic become literal or hegemonic.

Broader Connections

• Marxism’s theoretical elegance required discarding race, gender, and culture. #complicates (0.75)